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* ''Series/CSICyber'': "Fit-and-Run" opens with a young female jogger running through the park at night. She becomes the VictimOfTheWeek when she is run down by a car. It is later revealed that the killer was using her fitness app to track her.

* In a ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' TreehouseOfHorror short, Homer runs over and kills Ned Flanders while he (Flanders) is out on a "fog walk". At the end of the segment it's also revealed that [[spoiler: he'd already been attacked (and transformed) by a werewolf, making this an example of both variants at once.]]

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* In a ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' TreehouseOfHorror WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror short, Homer runs over and kills Ned Flanders while he (Flanders) is out on a "fog walk". At the end of the segment it's also revealed that [[spoiler: he'd already been attacked (and transformed) by a werewolf, making this an example of both variants at once.]]

* An interesting variation in Brooks Stanwood's horror novel ''The Glow''. A cadre of EvilOldFolks search for young couples to whom they can offer a spectacular apartment and a fitness regimen, [[spoiler: so they can drain the couple's blood to create a life-extension serum]]. Much of the regimen for the young couples includes jogging and running.

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* An interesting variation in Brooks Stanwood's horror novel ''The Glow''.A cadre of EvilOldFolks search searches for young couples to whom they can offer a spectacular apartment and a fitness regimen, [[spoiler: so they can drain until the couple's couples are healthy enough for their blood to be drained to create a the cadre's life-extension serum]]. serum]]. Much of the regimen for the young couples includes jogging and running.

* An interesting variation in Brooks Stanwood's horror novel ''The Glow''. A cadre of EvilOldFolks search for young couples to whom they can offer a spectacular apartment and a fitness regimen, [[spoiler: so they can drain the couple's blood to create a life-extension serum]]. Much of the regimen for the young couples includes jogging and running.

* ''AceVentura: Pet Detective'' finds the first major clue of the killer's current whereabouts in the storage room of the asylum where he stayed: a newspaper clipping about a missing hiker named [[spoiler:Lois Einhorn]].

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* ''AceVentura: Pet Detective'' ''Film/AceVenturaPetDetective'' finds the first major clue of the killer's current whereabouts in the storage room of the asylum where he stayed: a newspaper clipping about a missing hiker named [[spoiler:Lois Einhorn]].

* Inverted in one Dennis Leary routine on smoking. He recounts how a famous jogger, John Fix, dropped dead of a heart attack while jogging, and posits that it was probably a couple of smokers who found him.

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* Inverted in one Dennis Leary routine on smoking. He recounts how a famous jogger, John Fix, Jim Fixx, dropped dead of a heart attack while jogging, and posits that it was probably a couple of smokers who found him.

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